Agile Forecaster
Develops comprehensive operational and financial forecasts for global enterprises. It's driver-based planning models provide flexibility in adapting to changes in the business environment. Supports exploration of multiple scenarios.
- Reduces forecasting cycle time by up to 70%.
- Improves accuracy of forecasting through responsive collaboration across functional departments.
- "What if" scenario modeling improves visibility into impact of proposed changes.
- Allocates common costs based on complex allocation algorithms.
- Can be easily adopted for global dispersed teams.
- Secures capture of confidential information.
- Generates recommended detail level forecast based on high level plans.
Features
- Customizable Forecasting Engine — Revenue modeling, Cost modeling, Capital Expenditure modeling, Human Resources modeling using powerful Driver-Based technology.
- Recommended Plan — Generates intelligent detail level plans using high level target information and system intelligence.
- Flexible Reporting Periods — Allows planning and reporting across rolling forecast periods, fiscal and gregorian calendars.
- Enterprise Level Planning — Includes support for multiple currencies, locations, product measures, complex security needs, logging, and other complexities related global enterprise level planning.
- Flexible Data Loader — Directly loads data from ERP, CRM, HR and other enterprise applications without complex programming or data warehouses. Allows data loads using text files, excel spreadsheets, custom data entry forms, DB2, Oracle, SQL Server and other ODBC compliant data sources.
- In-Memory OLAP Database Engine — Advanced RAM-based multi-dimensional technology supports larger and complex models.
- Integrated Contributor Framework — Each functional area can submit their budget for inclusion and consolidation into master/enterprise budget.
- Multiple Versions — Supports creation of multiple planning versions and scenarios based on actual, budget and forecast data.